Improvement in whips



ILPETERS. PMOTO-LITBOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D cwaited Statist' aient Gltyiiine.

PANY, 0F WESTFIELDL MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners Patent No. 102,007, dated Apmz 19, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom these presen-ts may come.'

Be it known that I, LIVERUS HULL, of Charlestown, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Whips; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described iu the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whichpose the rest orpart?) ofthe stock, cloth covered with India rubber or a suitable cement, the said cloth being coiled around the heart piece and on itself to the nec# essai-y extent to form or complete the tapen'ng body of the wbipstock, the India rubber or the cement causing each layer of the cloth to adhere tc that on which it may be wound.

The cloth may becovered with an Iudiauubber or gutta-percha composition capable of being vulcanized, and, after the whip-stock may have been so formed of the wire, the cloth, and the Avulcanizable composition,

the latter may be subjected to-heat so as to vulcanize it, as is well known.

l Instead of the cloth, paper or 'a felted fabric may be substituted; but it is far preferable to employ India-rubber cloth, as, when completed, the whip-stock has all the necessary elasticity, with a degree of softness which is not well attainable when any other material than caoutchouc is employed with the cloth.

l make no claim to the invention of a whip as described in the United States Patent No. 92,372; nor do I claim the mode of makingr a whip as described in the British Patent No. 2,371, for 1866, granted to John Keyston, the process of the said Keystou cousisting in part in winding,r .layersof ebonite about ametallic wire.

I make no use of ebonite, which,when subjected t'o heat, as described in such patent, becomes hard like ebony, andwill not make a solt and yielding Whip such as the common India-rubber or gutta-percha covered cloth will when vulcanized. Besides, I use cloth or paper covered with the India-rubber adhesive composition capable of being vulcanized. f

I therefore claim, as a. new manufacture, a whipstock, formed of cloth or paper and vulcanized Indiarubber or gotta-percba composition and a heart piece' of metallic wire, arranged together as set fortln VVituesses: .LIVER-US HULL.

R.. H. EDDY, J'. R. SNOW. 

